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Michael F. Goodchild
Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara
Publications - 402
Citations - 37712
Michael F. Goodchild is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Barbara. The author has contributed to research in topics: Geographic information system & Geospatial analysis. The author has an hindex of 93, co-authored 393 publications receiving 35338 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael F. Goodchild include University of California, Berkeley & University at Buffalo.
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Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography
TL;DR: In recent months, there has been an explosion of interest in using the Web to create, assemble, and disseminate geographic information provided voluntarily by individuals as mentioned in this paper, and the role of the amateur in geographic observation has been discussed.
Book
Geographic Information Systems and Science
TL;DR: The Third Edition of this bestselling textbook has been fully revised and updated to include the latest developments in the field and still retains its accessible format to appeal to a broad range of students.
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Geographical information science
TL;DR: The current state of research in a series of key areas is reviewed and why progress has been so uneven is speculated on and new areas of significant potential in this area of research are looked to.
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Crowdsourcing geographic information for disaster response: a research frontier
TL;DR: Geographic information created by amateur citizens, often known as volunteered geographic information, has recently provided an interesting alternative to traditional authoritative information from mapping agencies and corporations, and several recent papers have provided the beginnings of a literature on the more fundamental issues raised by this new source.
Proceedings Article
Citizens as Voluntary Sensors: Spatial Data Infrastructure in the World of Web 2.0
TL;DR: Much progress has been made in the past two decades, and increasingly since the popularizing of the Internet and the advent of the Web, in exploiting new technologies in support of the dissemination of geographic information.